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Why More Play Is the Key to Creativity and Productivity

By Matt Davis — 2019

Adult recess and other apparently ridiculous activities may be one of the best ways to feel, work, and be better.

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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: How to Tap the Neurodivergent Talent Pool

Embracing neurodiversity, from ADHD to dyslexia, gives adland a creative edge.

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Brittaney Kiefer
2021
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ADHD in the Workplace

Individuals who have ADHD can be excellent and even inspired employees when placed in the right job with the correct structures in place.

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Jathan Janove
2020
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Stifled Creativity and Its Damaging Impact on the ADHD Brain

Creativity. It’s often cited as a valuable (but tough to harness) benefit of having ADHD. As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must carve out time to pursue your creative passions.

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Diane O’Reilly
2022
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I Have ADHD. Here Are 9 Productivity Tips that Really Help Me

Tips and tricks I use daily.

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Isabelle O’Carroll
2020
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Crazy Good: How Mental Illnesses Help Entrepreneurs Thrive

Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.

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Matt McFarland
2015
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5 Reasons You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It

Feel like you can never focus deeply? You’re probably not meeting these needs for continued attention.

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Edward Hallowell
2014
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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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9 to 5 with ADD: Practical Work Strategies for Clever ADHD Brains

Here, two successful entrepreneurs with ADD answer the most common and plaguing questions from ADDitude readers trying to manage their symptoms at work.

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Edward Hallowell, Peter Shankman
2018
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5 Rules for Succeeding in the Workplace When You Have ADHD

Rules one through five are the same: Find the right job. This rule gets broken all the time, however, leaving millions of adults with ADHD in jobs that they don’t like but don’t dare get out of. Here’s how to break the cycle.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.

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Edward Hallowell
2005
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